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Simon Gougnard
Simon Gougnard, Belgian field hockey midfielder (Red Lions), born 1991 in Nivelles; Olympic gold Tokyo 2020, silver Rio 2016, 2018 world and 2019 European champion; retired internationally 2023; Deloitte consultant and LSM graduate.
Simon Gray
Simon Gray, full name Simon James Holliday Gray (1936–2008), was an English playwright and diarist whose comic plays include Butley and Otherwise Engaged, alongside The Smoking Diaries.
Simon Grayson
Simon Grayson (born 1969, Ripon) is an English football manager and former player who won four promotions from League One with Blackpool, Leeds United, Huddersfield Town, and Preston North End, later managing Sunderland, Bengaluru FC, and Hartlepool United.
Simon Gregorčič
Simon Gregorčič (1844–1906) was a Slovenian poet and Catholic priest, nicknamed the nightingale of Gorica, whose four volumes of verse, including the ode "Soči", made him Slovenia's most musical poet.
Simon Gregson
Simon Gregson, born Simon Gregory in 1974 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, is an English actor who has played Steve McDonald in Coronation Street since December 1989, cast at 14 with no acting experience, and is a Trearddur Bay RNLI shore crew volunteer.
Simon Groot
Simon Nanne Groot (1934–2025) was a Dutch seed breeder, a sixth-generation seedsman who founded East-West Seed in the Philippines in 1982 and won the 2019 World Food Prize.
Simon Hald
Simon Hald (Simon Hald Jensen, born 1994, Aalborg) is a Danish handball line player for Aalborg Håndbold and Denmark: four world titles (2019, 2021, 2023, 2025), Paris 2024 Olympic gold, and 2026 European gold.
Simon Hamilton (British Army officer)
Lieutenant General Sir Simon Peter Hamilton, KBE, is a British Army officer and Deputy Chief of the General Staff since April 2026, formerly interim CEO and Director General Land at Defence Equipment & Support.
Simon Harris (politician)
Simon Harris (born 1986) is Ireland's Tánaiste, Minister for Finance, and Fine Gael leader; Taoiseach from April 2024 as the youngest ever, now set to resume the role in November 2027.
Simon Helberg
Simon Helberg (born 1980, Los Angeles) is an American actor, comedian, and pianist, known as Howard Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory and as Golden Globe-nominated pianist Cosme McMoon in Florence Foster Jenkins.
Simon Heller
Simon R. Heller is a British diabetologist, Professor of Clinical Diabetes at the University of Sheffield, known for research on hypoglycemia and for developing the DAFNE education program.
Simon I of Kartli
Simon I of Kartli (Georgian: სიმონ I; 1537–1611) was a Bagrationi king who ruled Kartli in two periods, 1556–1569 and 1578–1599, resisting Safavid Persia and the Ottoman Empire.
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay is an infectious disease epidemiologist who co-founded the Malaria Atlas Project and is a professor and Director of Research Strategy at IHME in Seattle.
Simon Ingersoll
Simon Ingersoll (1818–1894) was an American inventor from Stanwich, Connecticut, who received the basic 1871 patent for the tripod-mounted rock drill; his name survives in Ingersoll Rand.
Simon Islip
Simon Islip (c. 1300–1366) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1349 until his death, elevated after the Black Death killed his two predecessors-elect; he founded Canterbury College, Oxford.
Simon J. Davis
Simon J. Davis is a British immunologist and Professor of Molecular Immunology at the University of Oxford, best known for the kinetic-segregation model of T-cell receptor activation.
Simon J. Draper
Simon J. Draper is a professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford whose group developed the RH5.1 blood-stage malaria vaccine, 55% effective in a Burkina Faso trial.
Simon J. L. Billinge
Simon J. L. Billinge is an American materials scientist known for developing the atomic pair distribution function method; he became Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara in 2026.
Simon J. Ortiz
Simon J. Ortiz, born 1941 at McCarty's, New Mexico, is an Acoma Pueblo poet known for From Sand Creek and Woven Stone, major works of the Native American Renaissance.
Simon Jäger
Simon Jäger is a labor economist who studies labor markets and inequality. He moved from MIT to Princeton in 2025 and won the Gustav Stolper Award in 2024.
Simon Johnson (economist)
Simon Johnson (Simon Henry Roberts Johnson), born 1963 in Sheffield, is an MIT economist who shared the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize for studies of how institutions affect prosperity.
Simon Jones (actor)
Simon Jones is an English actor born in 1950. He is best known for playing Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Lord Brideshead in Brideshead Revisited.
Simon Jones (cricketer)
Simon Philip Jones (born 1978, Morriston, Wales), Welsh fast bowler, son of Jeff Jones; 18 Tests for England 2002-2005, 59 wickets; 18 wickets at 21 in the 2005 Ashes; Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2006; retired 2013.
Simon Jordan
Simon Jordan, English businessman and talkSPORT broadcaster, owned and chaired Crystal Palace FC 2000-2010 after selling Pocket Phone Shop; promotion in 2004, administration in 2010, then a media career.
Simon Kaggwa Njala
Simon Kaggwa Njala (born 1976, Jinja, Uganda) is a Ugandan journalist and NBS TV talk-show host of Morning Breeze and Frontline, famous for the 2012 'Why are you gay?' interview with Pepe Julian Onziema that became a global meme; he lost the 2016 Busiro South parliamentary race to Peter Sematimba.
Simon Kainzwaldner
Simon Kainzwaldner (born 1994, Bolzano) is an Italian doubles luger. Racing with Emanuel Rieder since 2018, he won men's doubles gold and team relay bronze at Cortina 2026, after 2012 Youth Olympic gold with Florian Gruber.
Simon Kapwepwe
Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe (1922 to 1980) was a Zambian anti-colonialist, politician, and author, a childhood friend of Kenneth Kaunda, who served as Zambia's second vice-president from 1967 to 1970.
Simon Karpatkin
Simon Karpatkin was an American hematologist and Director of Hematology at NYU School of Medicine who established platelet heterogeneity and platelets' role in tumor metastasis.
Simon Katich
Simon Matthew Katich (born 1975) is an Australian former Test opener who scored 4,188 runs at 45.03 in 56 Tests and later coached RCB, SRH, Manchester Originals, and Mumbai Indians Cape Town.
Simon Kimbangu
Simon Kimbangu (circa 1889 to 1951) was a Congolese religious leader and Baptist catechist whose brief 1921 ministry inspired central Africa's most important independent Christian movement.